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00:00:01Welcome, everybody. Here we go. Hanging left, episode 15. My name is Matt Connerton, and
00:00:06of course, my partner in crime in this venture, Todd Ayers here. Hello, Todd.
00:00:10Hey, how are you?
00:00:11Good. How's it hanging?
00:00:13Right now, it's hanging a little under the weather, my friend. I've got, as you can,
00:00:17I'm sure anyone can hear me, I've got some kind of like cold, allergy, combo.
00:00:23Yeah, yeah. I'm hanging left, but I'll tell you what, this has been a brutal cold and
00:00:29flu season. I usually get sick once a year, you know, in a typical year. I'll pick up
00:00:36something, you know, usually early January, and then that's it, and then I'm good for
00:00:40another year. But this year, it's like, I've been sick multiple times.
00:00:43Yeah, that's right. You have been.
00:00:45Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And it seems like everybody I know has, too. I've been a little bit stuffy
00:00:52yesterday and today, but then I think, in my case, it's allergies.
00:00:56Yeah. Because as soon as we get that first wave of actual spring weather, because it's
00:01:02warm here right now, you know, things start blooming. And so I don't mind. I just, you
00:01:07know, I hate being sick, but allergies, it's like, okay, it's a sign of spring. Spring.
00:01:12I love spring. I love summer. So I'm happy. I just want everything to melt. Yeah. And I
00:01:17want it to melt as soon as possible. So, you know, I don't mind. I don't mind the sniffle,
00:01:21but I'm sorry that you're not feeling well. Yeah. I mean, just, you know, it's, it's more
00:01:27frustrating than anything. Oh, yeah. Because, you know, I talk, you know, I talk for a living
00:01:33and I write, well, the writing part isn't bad, but I do a lot of talking and a lot of,
00:01:37you
00:01:38know, promoting and all of that sort of thing. And like, it's not easy to do those things,
00:01:43you know. Yeah. When you sound like Nancy Naval, I mean, it's ridiculous.
00:01:51Jenny, she's been dealing with, you know, she had an ear infection and she still can't
00:01:55hear out of her right ear. And, you know, and that, that was related to an upper respiratory
00:02:00thing that she had seemingly. But yeah, I had one when I was a kid, one of my earliest childhood
00:02:06memories. Yeah. I can't remember the last time you had an ear infection. I feel like that's
00:02:10mostly children, but anyway. Tends to be. Yeah. Tends to be. But happy spring. I know
00:02:16technically, according to the calendar, it's not spring, but it is meteor, I can't say it,
00:02:21meteorological spring as of March 1st. So, and things are, things are melting and blooming
00:02:26and hopefully we're done with the snow. What is the date? It is March 8th, 2026. Karen joins
00:02:34us in the chat room, by the way. Yay, Karen. Live viewers. She says, I'm here. So if you are
00:02:39joining us live, welcome, feel free to interact in the chat room on this March 8th, 2026. And
00:02:45of course, everybody else who joins us via the podcast version of the show, please subscribe
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00:02:54that very, very much. Todd, what do you want to talk about first?
00:02:59You know, I guess we can talk about the, you know, metaphoric camel in the room. I won't say
00:03:04elephant because we're dealing with the Middle East here. Um, and that, uh, you know, non
00:03:10war that is a war.
00:03:12Mm hmm. Uh, what is, uh, so interesting to me is, uh, you know, seeing it, it gets, you
00:03:21know, the, the political ramifications of it, it gets a little bit, um, people get hyperbolic
00:03:25about it. You know, they call it a civil war within MAGA because you have some influencers
00:03:30and some media people, uh, who are MAGA, who are questioning, uh, you know, the, the prudence
00:03:35of this, but of course, most of them still go along with, I mean, most of them, honestly,
00:03:40if Trump told them the sky was green, they would all go outside, look up at the sky and
00:03:44say, yeah, I'd never noticed before, but that's kind of green, isn't it? So, but, but it is
00:03:48fun to see a few of them kind of split off here and there.
00:03:51I mean, yes, but they're not really doing anything. It's like, I mean, I don't, you know,
00:03:56it's like, it's like, um, you know, the Democrats when they write, you know, and Schumer, when
00:04:00he writes a strongly worded letters, it's like, who cares? Like actually do something
00:04:04of sustenance. Hey, Karen, how are you? Oh, and by the way, hello to loud entertainment
00:04:10who is also in the chat room. Uh, I was at an event last night, uh, at the magic room
00:04:16in Norwood, Massachusetts, some great bands. Uh, sepsis, uh, was the headliner also awaiting
00:04:21Abigail trying to avoid sepsis. I don't want sepsis under a terrible band name by
00:04:26their own admission. Uh, also under the horizon and sex coffee, uh, was there sex
00:04:32coffee, sex coffee. Interestingly enough, all their songs were about sex. None of
00:04:36them were about coffee that I could tell, but, uh, but great, great time last night.
00:04:39Thank you loud entertainment and, uh, welcome. Well, maybe after having sex all night, you
00:04:43have to drink a lot of coffee to stay awake the next day. So there you go.
00:04:47Perhaps, perhaps, um, I, uh, well, if you're, if you're doing it,
00:04:51literally all night, that's probably the least of your, uh, problems of staying
00:04:54awake to be a little, uh, um, so anyway, so anyway, yeah. So, uh, so it is interesting
00:05:03to see how some on the, uh, on the right in the magosphere are reacting to this
00:05:09because one of the things that Trump ran on was, you know, no more of these
00:05:12forever wars, no more getting bogged down in the middle East and regime change
00:05:17and nation building all of that. But, um, but, but most of them, most of them figure
00:05:22out a way to just go along with whatever Trump tells them because, um, they don't
00:05:26really believe in anything. They just, well, yeah. And I think what it is is that
00:05:30you've got all of these people like at this point, um, you know, yes, Trump
00:05:35manipulates a lot of people, but, but, but it goes, uh, you know, it's, it's, um, what
00:05:41is the word I want? It, it's parasitical, you know, it's mutually parasitical
00:05:46because they also manipulate him. So, I mean, if you, if you listen to that,
00:05:51like, you know, what was like a war speech that, um, Rubio gave at the Munich,
00:05:58um, was it like the, the, the peace convention, not the peace convention, the, um, I mean,
00:06:05he probably called it that cause they call everything the opposite of what it is.
00:06:07Right. Right. Um, the, the board of peace. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But he was talking
00:06:12about like, like how, you know, how unfortunate it is that, you know, the days
00:06:17of the West going and sending their armies, uh, and their, uh, you know,
00:06:24crusades and, and people, their pilgrims and all of these people to, you know, um,
00:06:31civilize the uncivilized world, you know, uh, you know, which is our rightful
00:06:36ordained, right. According to these people. And that, you know, I mean, I've never heard such
00:06:42talk about, um, hyperbole. I mean, you know, it's, it, it, it's, it's interesting. Well,
00:06:49not interesting in a good way, but like, basically he's like, this is the second coming
00:06:53of imperialism. And, you know, I think there's a couple of them that punched their dance cards
00:06:57on this. We've got Putin, we've got, um, you know, the, the leader of China, we've got Trump,
00:07:05we've got Netanyahu who can, you know, just wage war for fun. And he, you know, uh, I don't know,
00:07:12like everywhere he ever lost against any middle Eastern country, you know, can try to make up for
00:07:16the next year. I don't, it's just insane. So, um, I think if you heard that and then you saw
00:07:24what
00:07:24happened, it's, it's not shocking and it's also not shocking that they didn't go through the
00:07:29like sort of regular steps. Well, in terms of the Trump administration's history with this,
00:07:36uh, you know, I was pretty upset in 2018 when they tore up the Iran nuclear agreement and the
00:07:40only reason they did it. And let's be honest about it because I know MAGA, uh, MAGA apologists will
00:07:45say, well, you know, it was a bad deal in this and that. Well, maybe it wasn't perfect, but it
00:07:49was
00:07:49the best we could get at the time. And, um, but you know, of course, Trump said, well, we're going
00:07:56to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal and we're going to, we're going to have a better deal, you
00:08:00know, because I'm this master negotiator and all that. And of course there was no better deal and
00:08:03there was really no attempt at making a better deal. Um, so, you know, it's kind of like, uh,
00:08:10it's kind of like lighting a building on fire and then calling the fire department and then, uh,
00:08:15you know, I mean, I, I really think they all think that they're like just there. I told you,
00:08:19just like, it's, they're like the mafia. They're all sitting around and they're all like dividing
00:08:23up territories as to who can go where. Um, and anyone that doesn't, you know, he, he haphazardly,
00:08:30um, invites other European nations to play, but because other European nations believe in things
00:08:37such as the sovereignty of States and, um, diplomacy over warfare and other things, they of course don't
00:08:45want to play. So, you know, you've got, you've got Spain saying, sorry, no, you can't fly your
00:08:49planes from here. You know, you had England that like tried to, you know, UK that did it for a
00:08:55little bit and then they kind of backpedaled. Um, and they said, well, you can fly defensive flights
00:09:01and something else. I don't remember, but the thing is these guys are like true imperialists.
00:09:07Um, so I think that, you know, and plus I think there's some economics involved here. Um, you know,
00:09:16I think that, I don't know. I mean, I, I definitely don't feel like this was a liberation
00:09:22of the resistance of the Iranian people because it, and you know, but it's very interesting because,
00:09:31um, and even at that, like, so the Shah of Iran, the original Shah of Iran, his son is living
00:09:37in the
00:09:37United States. And, um, he, I guess was jockeying to take over as, as the leader and Trump kind of
00:09:45passed over him and said, no, we need somebody already in the country. But then Trump also
00:09:49mentioned that, uh, well, but then again, everybody that was in the country that probably was up to speed
00:09:55to lead a country is dead. So there's that problem. He literally said that. Yeah, he did.
00:10:01He did. Yeah. Um, in between silent deaths from, you know, uh, submarines is what, uh,
00:10:09Headstuff likes to call it a silent death. I mean, these guys are like, I don't know if they think
00:10:14they're sort of like writing the next Tom Clancy novel. I mean, I, this is just crazy.
00:10:20Well, what's even worse is there's also people who on the right, who, uh, they start bringing
00:10:25the Bible into it, you know, and this is all we're fulfilling prophecy. And that, that shit is
00:10:31legitimately terrifying because these are the people who are going to get us all killed.
00:10:35You know what I mean? Because these are the people who think that world war three would be just dandy
00:10:39because luckily I don't, they're not really in power though. Are they? Uh, I worry that they have
00:10:45more power than we think because, um, uh, you know, I mean, you, you see them, we've all seen
00:10:51the images of, of all of them, you know, hanging out with Trump and they're laying the hands on
00:10:56Trump and, you know, because Trump is such a godly man and all this, but, but, but these are,
00:11:00these are the really scary people because these are the people who are rooting, literally rooting
00:11:05for the end of the world, uh, because they think that, uh, you know, they're, they're going to be
00:11:11taken up to heaven. You know, as long as you go through life being really angry at trans people
00:11:15and immigrants, God will take you to heaven when the, uh, end of the world happens. And, uh, that,
00:11:20that's what they think. And they, some of them, I don't think actually believe it. I think for many
00:11:24of them it's performative because what they really believe in is power, but I think some of them
00:11:28actually do believe it. I do too. I just think that like, typically though, when you're that much of
00:11:33an ideologue, it's very difficult to get like entire countries to follow you and stuff like that. Um,
00:11:40so, you know, I'm hopeful as far as that goes. Yeah. And as it, as you mentioned, there's already,
00:11:46um, fracturing inside the, the MAGA regime. Um, although honestly, I feel like it's just picking
00:11:52one of the, you know, one of the two evils. I mean, I don't like any of them. Um, you
00:11:57know,
00:11:57but hopefully it is the end of the world. Hopefully it's the end of their world. And, um, you know,
00:12:02I mean, that's my goal. Uh, Karen said in the chat room, I read that some commanders told troops
00:12:07that Trump was anointed by Jesus. Yeah. This kind of stuff has infected our military.
00:12:13Yeah. Um, and that worries me, Karen, I'm glad you brought that up at that, even though it chills
00:12:18me. Uh, but that, that is the kind of stuff that really worries me. Um, you know, and of course,
00:12:26if you're, if you're MAGA or at least MAGA adjacent, you know, you're going to believe that,
00:12:31that yes, you know, because we hear that all the time from these people, Trump was chosen by God.
00:12:35Uh, yeah. But I mean, look at his public ratings. I mean, they're plummeting.
00:12:39Um, the business community is going to turn against him eventually because you know,
00:12:43the stock market is yo-yoing. Um, you know, I, I, I don't think it's sustainable.
00:12:50I, uh, I worry about the business community. Uh, I, I worry that they're never, they should
00:12:54have turned against him, uh, in the first term very early. I, I, I don't know. I don't,
00:12:59I don't think the business community quote unquote has the balls to, to stand up to him.
00:13:03Um, well, if they're losing money, they will though. No, I don't think so. I don't think so.
00:13:08I think they want to just ride it out because where, where are they on the tariffs? Where's,
00:13:13where's the business community? I thought they sued. I thought a lot of them sued.
00:13:16Not enough. I mean, I don't know. I just, um, a lot of them are silent and I mean,
00:13:23I'm not really looking for a revolution of oligarchs, honestly, like, right. Um, you know,
00:13:27some ways it's good. They're silent. Cause then they'll just stay the hell out of the way.
00:13:30And we can do our thing and, and put power back in place and, and this mess right now. I've
00:13:36been
00:13:36very cynical, uh, in the last few minutes, obviously, but I, I will, I will say one thing
00:13:40that might be, yes, you have, yes, might sound, I might sound, uh, what's just so hard to get
00:13:46through to these people. It's so hard. Um, but, but, uh, one thing that I, I am, I will say
00:13:53this,
00:13:54um, the term world war three is being thrown around a lot. So here's, here's my little bit
00:13:59of optimism. It's not going to come to that. Um, and I know it's kind of, it's kind of a
00:14:03nebulous
00:14:03term too. I mean, when I hear world war three, I think of the first thing that comes to mind
00:14:07for
00:14:08me as a cold war kid, um, is, you know, I, I think about a nuclear exchange with Russia and,
00:14:14uh, I do not
00:14:15believe any of this is going to come to that or anywhere near close to that. I am concerned that
00:14:20the
00:14:20Russians are allegedly helping the Iranians. Uh, yeah, it was pretty much. So actually that was
00:14:25mentioned today on, um, meet the nation, um, or the state of the nation. Sorry. Yeah. I mean,
00:14:33I definitely think it's happening. We don't know to what degree and to be honest, we're not going to
00:14:36know because, um, you know, the general public doesn't really need to know all those details
00:14:40because if we know then, then the Iranian, you know, Republican guard knows and all this other
00:14:45stuff, but then more of our people are in harm's way. So, right. Um, the other thing about this,
00:14:52uh, so something that people don't really talk about, um, certainly not on our side of this is
00:14:59I always find it a little bit, how should I put it? Cause I've never really talked about this before.
00:15:08Um, the, the, the, the, the difficult thing that the, the difficult position that this puts us in
00:15:14forgetting right left for a minute, just thinking about this as Americans, the difficult position
00:15:19that we're always in when we have an administration that does something like this is we can disagree
00:15:24with it. We can be mad about it. We should be all of it. Like I said, I blame him
00:15:29for ripping up the
00:15:29Iran nuclear deal in 2018. That's, and then, you know, like I said, it's like setting a building on
00:15:35fire and then calling the fire department and patting yourself on the back. Um, but the, the,
00:15:39the really difficult thing for me that I struggle with is, well, what do we do now? Because the
00:15:45impulse is, well, we have to stop him. But once, once the administration, this is, and I felt this
00:15:54way during, during W, you know, when we're invading Iraq and Afghanistan, the difficult thing is,
00:16:02yeah, we want to stop and we want to reign this in. But now, now that we've already gone and
00:16:08done,
00:16:08this very foolish thing, how do we stop him? And how do we reign him in, in a way that
00:16:16doesn't
00:16:16actually hurt? See, and I, I hate to say it cause I'm almost, I'm almost giving the other side a
00:16:23talking point when I say this, but we, we, how do we, how do we stop him and reign him
00:16:28in, in a way
00:16:28that doesn't make America look weak, which we don't want to do on the foreign policy stage either.
00:16:34Do you understand? I don't know if I'm articulating it well.
00:16:37I'll respectfully disagree. First off, America does look weak. Um, at this point,
00:16:42well, I agree with you there actually, they're already seeing the United States as a country
00:16:46they can no longer trust. They're looking at different types of aligned alliances and
00:16:51alignments. That's, you know, in some ways, be careful what you wish for Trump because
00:16:54NATO is actually getting stronger for that very reason. They're trying to like,
00:16:58you know, kind of exist as their own entity without us, at least until Trump has gone.
00:17:03Right. True. You know, so I think that, that, that ship sailed. I mean, we're, you know,
00:17:11we're not seen as doing anything anymore for any moral reason. Everything is, um, for us all
00:17:18transactions, it's all transactional, all transactional. There's way too much out there in the, um,
00:17:26you know, in the, in the sphere of, uh, in the communication sphere that, that proves it. I mean,
00:17:31these guys admit it themselves. Right. So, you know, Hey, I think it's time that we, cause,
00:17:36cause look, like I, I have no, I'm not going to lose any sleep over pro rah, rah, rah, America,
00:17:43American flag right now. Like not, you know, I don't consider him my president. As I've said many
00:17:47times, I don't get this administration, my administration. I think a lot of Americans feel
00:17:52that way. So I'm not going to own his, his mess. And so for me, yeah, I hope he does
00:17:58fall on his
00:17:59sword. Right. Well, I do too. Ultimately. I, and so I guess my thing is, and I know I, you
00:18:06know,
00:18:09look, when you are in a situation like this, you're going to have to make some decisions.
00:18:13And I don't know, you can kind of like limit the bleeding, but I don't think you're going to be
00:18:18able to stop the bleeding immediately and cauterize it. Right. So I think what you're going to have to do
00:18:22is which we didn't do, but we should have enacted the war powers act and we should have froze the
00:18:27funding and we would have put him in a position and see people don't, this is where I am a
00:18:32little
00:18:33bit more, um, strategic. I'm willing to be a little more strategic and, and do some things that a lot
00:18:39of people aren't willing to do. Had I been the president or sorry, had I been like Schumer, I
00:18:45wouldn't be the president in this case, but had I been like, you know, someone like in a position to
00:18:49do
00:18:49so I would have froze the funding and I would have done very much what we did with the shutdown.
00:18:54And, and when people started crying about, well, if you freeze the funding, you're not supporting
00:18:58the soldiers and then the soldiers are going to get injured. And all of them like, no, he's the one
00:19:01doing it. I froze the funding because this is an illegal war and I want to bring these people home.
00:19:07That's on him. If he chooses to keep them there without the right resources, without the right,
00:19:12because this is an illegal war and we can't keep on excusing behaviors because we're worried about
00:19:20casualties. There are casualties in war. There will be casualties at this point. It's all about
00:19:26letting people know who is the real fire starter here. And it's him and it's Netanyahu and it's Putin,
00:19:32you know, these are the evil ones. Um, you know, and it's Hegseth and it's, and it's Rubio.
00:19:38Like, I I'm sorry, I'm not going to like buffer things. So these guys don't have a rough time.
00:19:43Right. Right. Understood. Um, and I, I fundamentally agree. Um, there is one other piece of this that
00:19:49we talked about, uh, right before the show and I have something here from Reuters and you know,
00:19:54this is, uh, this has to do with the economic impacts that we, uh, are going to be feeling are
00:20:00starting to feel already. Uh, Iraqi oil production collapses with straight of Hormuz blocked by conflict.
00:20:08Um, just a summary of the article here. It says Iraq cuts oil outpost output rather due to Middle East
00:20:14conflict. Storage is full remaining output heads to domestic refineries, Southern exports, uh, set to
00:20:20halt due to lack of tankers. So for people who don't know, the Strait of Hormuz is a, that's a
00:20:25vital
00:20:26artery. Uh, you know, oil has to be able to move through there. Right. And we're going to,
00:20:32you know, I don't know how bad it's going to get, but it will. So, so it will hurt trade.
00:20:37It will hurt
00:20:38all of trade, international trade. And, um, it also will hurt, um, the fact that, so our oil now,
00:20:48at least we are finally admitting, we don't really need their oil. Like we have plenty of oil. So
00:20:52it won't hurt us oil wise, but it will hurt us in many other ways. Um, and it will hurt
00:20:58the Saudis,
00:20:59which I personally don't care, but, um, you know, that's the only good thing about this is it could
00:21:04hurt the Saudis. Um, but you know, but that Trump should care because they're supposed to be his
00:21:09buddies. So. I, I, I do think though, whether, whether or not we need the oil and I agree, I
00:21:15mean, we don't need the oil. We, we, you know, we, we've, we've been, uh, energy self-sufficient
00:21:20for a long time actually. Um, but, um, I, I think though, it's still going to affect us price-wise
00:21:26because if, if, if you spook the markets and I don't, I, you know, I don't have a sophisticated
00:21:31enough understanding of how that all works, but, but I, I think it is already starting.
00:21:36Oh yeah, for sure. Cause, cause, cause investing is emotional. I mean, it really is. It's done
00:21:40on security. You know, it's done on a feeling of security. Um, you know, right now, you know,
00:21:45the good faith and trust of the U S dollar, like who the hell is trusting the U S dollar
00:21:49right
00:21:49now? I mean, it's a disaster. Um, especially where we've got one guy who likes to, you know,
00:21:55he's like, he's starting now. It's like this administration. I feel like every day they go
00:21:58in and they say, what, what game should we play today? Monopoly or risk? So, you know,
00:22:04and this is like what they do on a daily basis. Now, uh, Karen in the chat says, I forgot
00:22:08who
00:22:08actually said this, but I heard a politician in Europe refer to this as the Trump regime.
00:22:12It was jarring, but that's exactly what it is. Oh yeah. And I hear Americans, uh, say that
00:22:17me, I call it a regime all the time. You call it a regime all the time. I do as
00:22:20well. Yeah,
00:22:21absolutely. Absolutely. Um, anything else on Iran or should we move on? I, you know,
00:22:27the only other thing is that it would be interesting if anybody knows out there listening,
00:22:30um, the rumor. So here's the thing that I find very interesting. Oh yes. I forgot about this.
00:22:35Indeed. We did this. I don't know just to play devil's advocate. We'll play the game. Okay. So
00:22:41we did this to give the country back to the, you know, liberation, uh, resistance that are pro
00:22:49people, pro democracy, pro, you know, civil liberties. And we were trying to set them
00:22:54up for a, for a win. Okay. Well, first off, that's not how you do it. Everyone I've heard
00:22:59that knows about this sort of thing has literally said it's the war. The way we did it is the
00:23:04worst way to set up for an actual real revolution. Um, you know, the, certainly you've, you've already
00:23:10had meetings months and months in advance with the people that are going to take over, like,
00:23:14you know, and the CIA has prepped them and the NSA has prepped them. And, you know, you don't just
00:23:21decide arbitrarily. Like he said, well, all the guys were in the same room, Israel said. So I said,
00:23:27let's just go for it. You know what I mean? This is not how you, you launch, you know, a
00:23:32war that
00:23:34affects a whole region. Well, you don't launch wars anyway, just to launch wars, but yeah, you know,
00:23:40a regional war and a preemptive war because, you know, and we used to hear that term a lot
00:23:45during the W administration. And again, this is something that, uh, Trump ran on not doing,
00:23:51but he, but they've actually been using, I think Rubio used the term we were preempting because
00:23:55we thought that they were going to attack Israel, or we thought that they were going to attack us.
00:24:00There's about 10 reasons why. I know. The other one is that Trump is concerned. He wanted to stop,
00:24:06um, the, uh, Republican guard from sending their assassins after him. Guess what, Trump?
00:24:12You just made sure that was going to happen. I didn't know. I didn't know about that one. I
00:24:16didn't, uh, I didn't actually hear that one. Well, that's one of his paranoias. So that's
00:24:20probably his narcissistic paranoia. Yeah. Cause it's all about him. Yeah. Yeah. That's true.
00:24:25Absolutely. That is. But I definitely think it's happening now. I mean, it would not surprise me at all
00:24:29if at some point, especially if like you're a little lower on the totem pole, whether you're a family
00:24:34member of his or whether you're like a secretary of some kind or senior level of the administration,
00:24:39but not enough to like have, you know, a lot of security around you. I wouldn't want to be them
00:24:43right now because yeah, that's the weapon, the best weapon they have. They will do. They're,
00:24:48they're not beyond terrorist, you know, attacks and assassinations and sure. That's how they,
00:24:54that's how they operate. Absolutely. Um, all right. Any, anything else on that or should we move on?
00:24:59So, so yeah. So I forgot to say, so, Oh, supposedly there's like already a leader that
00:25:05they've picked. Oh yeah. This is the part that, yeah. Cause you, you know, something about this
00:25:10that I didn't realize. Yeah. Well, I just saw it, but I don't know much about it. I would love
00:25:15to,
00:25:15to dive into that deeper, but the issue there is that it's quite obvious that they already picked
00:25:19a leader that they would be the Republican guard and all these people. And it's not a good leader.
00:25:24It's like, weren't they floating? They were at one point they were floating the Ayatollah son
00:25:30who's supposed to be just as outrageous as the Ayatollah. Right. Well then there's the,
00:25:34the Shah of Iran, you, cause we were talking about this before the show. I'm trying to find a,
00:25:38find something like him for somebody, but Trump doesn't like him because Trump says it has to be,
00:25:44uh, it has to be somebody who's already in the country. Right. Right. Um, Oh, you mean people
00:25:50that are already in the country have to run the country. You can't just go into
00:25:54other countries and decide you're going to run it. Okay. I found something here. Uh,
00:25:59nine news.com son of ousted King positions himself to take over in Iran. Um, Oh, so it's the Shah's
00:26:07son. Um, Oh no, this is, uh, no, this is the guy, the other guy that you were talking about,
00:26:13I think. Great. So guess what? We failed. Well, Trump even, did you see this when Trump was talking
00:26:20to the press and he actually said that might happen? We might fail. But what about this?
00:26:25What if, because Trump is a narcissistic lunatic and he wants to like, you know, build a bigger
00:26:34sandbox quite literally to just like brag about it. Like, you know, that's the other thing too.
00:26:39I heard a very interesting podcast about how Trump is a legacy mode. I think he's given up that he's
00:26:44going to probably more than likely not going to be able to pull off like a third term as president.
00:26:48Right. He's kind of come to terms with that. Yeah. So his new one is like, I'm going to put
00:26:54my face
00:26:54all over Washington, everything, which he doesn't know that like, and I've talked to several people
00:26:58that are very high up. The very first thing we're going to do when we take back power is tear
00:27:01this
00:27:01crap all down. He thinks the department of justice is still going to have his mugshot
00:27:08hanging when he's done. What an idiot. Right. Right. Maybe we'll, uh, we'll pry his name off of the
00:27:15Kennedy center. Yeah, we will. We will be in the Kennedy center. Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:20I can't wait. I know. By the way, does, does this all help us in the midterms? Do you think
00:27:25the Iran thing? I think it does. All of it. See, that's the, that is the plus side of all
00:27:29of this is that on a political standpoint, I'm actually, I don't want to say happy he's doing
00:27:36this because lives are being lost and this is awful, but I am happy that the world is seeing
00:27:42what I predicted and what many people predicted. And it, it is sad though, because why do we always
00:27:48have to learn this the hard way? But if you look at what's happening in Texas, for example,
00:27:53that should give us a lot of hope, you know? No, no, for sure. But like, but it didn't have
00:27:57to come
00:27:57to this. Right. Well, of course, like if we had impeached him, like we should have, if we'd not
00:28:02worried about a popularity contest or the optics of impeaching someone running for president,
00:28:07who's a member of the mafia, his own mafia, like who, who rapes children, like who, who has a bunch
00:28:13of friends that rape children? Like, why did we not get rid of these goons? Allegedly. I just want
00:28:19to put that word in there. It's not alleged. Well, it's not. They're, they're, they're, they're
00:28:24predators. He's trying to protect us a tiny bit. Come after me, buddy. Come after me. You'll just
00:28:30go with my ratings. That's true. Come after me. That's true. That's true. I actually,
00:28:34yeah, we, we don't mind. We don't mind the attention. Come on, baby. That is true. That
00:28:38is true. All right. Anything else on that or, uh, no, I guess I've gone off on that. You
00:28:43know? No, no, I, I love it, but I know that, uh, we should talk about Sarah. Uh, because
00:28:48there's been some wins there that I know you want to talk about. So first and foremost, all
00:28:54of the behind the scenes wrangling that Sarah was doing, um, while we were in the process
00:29:00of laying the groundwork to get rid of the concentration camp in, um, Merrimack, Sarah
00:29:07was actually negotiating with, uh, the Washington side of things and talking to them about stuff
00:29:12and using her leverage there, um, before she's been put into Congress. So, you know, these
00:29:17are the kinds of things we want to see in our leaders, you know, not like talking about
00:29:21what they think they might do if they got the chance, but maybe they don't really know,
00:29:25but writing a strongly word worded letter. Right. Right. I mean, this is what this, this
00:29:31country needs. And then the thing, what was really beautiful is there was a plane full
00:29:37of detainees that the DHS, um, decided and they claim these air force claims. They had
00:29:44no notice of this. I think they have like a 15 minute notice. So they, they forced landed
00:29:48this, why they forced landed it into a snowstorm is beyond me, but they did. And so, you know,
00:29:55all these people in New Hampshire and all these activists and all this were like, um, super
00:29:59nervous because these people were literally sitting on the tarmac freezing because these
00:30:03planes don't have the best in, you know, they weren't bringing water out to them or whatever,
00:30:07like it's not a good look. Um, and Sarah actually, again, had been in Washington and she
00:30:13went and she basically lobbied these people. And, uh, you know, one thing I have to give
00:30:17passing credit, she picked up the phone and she had that, that, um, airplane pushed into
00:30:22the hangar and given them water and given them heat and, you know, tried to make the
00:30:27best of a not great situation. So again, you know, Sarah's not getting paid yet and she's
00:30:33doing the kinds of things that a Congress person should be doing.
00:30:37Right. Right. Oh, by the way, uh, Sarah too, uh, Sarah was holding the microphone, uh, for
00:30:43Jenny, when Jenny spoke at that event, uh, before the state of the union in Washington,
00:30:47I, uh, Jenny sent me the video and I was like, Oh, that's Sarah, Sarah's there where they're
00:30:51holding the mic. So that was, that was really cool. Um, and of course the other, you know,
00:30:55I mentioned victory is the other, the big victory you, you mentioned Merrimack. I mean,
00:30:59that's because I think the last, I think in episode 14, the previous episode that, you know,
00:31:05that was still in play at that point. It looked like it was still going to happen. Like
00:31:09that facility was going to go in, but, uh, no down, down in flames with it. So that's
00:31:14good. And we got rid of gnome. Um, but I mean, you know, that's all, I mean, I just don't
00:31:21like her. So it's whatever. I'm not naive to think though, that like, Oh, we got rid
00:31:24of gnome. So now everything's going to be better. I mean, not at all. Right. She does
00:31:28have great hair. I'll say that for, uh, does she? Well, you know, I mean, a lot of pop
00:31:32stars have great hair. She looks like a, you know, what do you, what do you think is behind
00:31:37that? I see. I don't understand. I know. So I think that this is, cause this is how
00:31:43all dictators work, right? If you want your pet tigers and your gilded palaces, you can
00:31:48have your pet tigers in your gilded palaces. As long as things are going the way I want them
00:31:52to go and I'm getting the credit. Well, Christine Noem, things started to not go the way and the
00:32:00public started to turn on Trump and turn on Wendowski and turn on, um, all these other guys.
00:32:07And I think behind closed doors, even Miller, who's known for not liking people probably
00:32:13said to him, look, we need someone to fall on a sword on this one, because unfortunately
00:32:17we didn't succeed on this. Like two people were killed. You know, we don't care, but the
00:32:23public does. And we can't run a revolution or, uh, imperial, even an imperious revolution
00:32:29like that blatant. So we have to pretend we care. So we need someone. Oh, and by the way,
00:32:37Christine Noem, we can even like give valid reasons why we need to get rid of her because
00:32:41of her abuse of money and power. You know, she's got a $70 million jet that her and Lewandowski
00:32:48were flying around in that was like decked out to the hilt. You know, she's got, you know,
00:32:53she stole that, that guy's home, that mansion. Did you hear about that? Yeah. Like she just
00:32:59decided she was going to live there. Um, right. I mean, the secretary of, um, of DHS doesn't
00:33:07usually get a home, but right. Right. But she does with Christine Noem. Yeah. And then
00:33:12she spent 200 million on a campaign, which I think this is the part that Trump didn't like
00:33:19it. It barely had Trump's face in it anywhere. Like it was all about her. Right. Like, like,
00:33:24and how she was going to like take down the criminals. Yeah. Right. Right. Barbie, Barbie
00:33:30battalion. You know, she was going to. Right. Right. Yeah. And of course she's out. So Lewandowski
00:33:36is out. Right. Thank God. Although Lewandowski might be running. Did you hear this? No, I didn't.
00:33:42Now we're going local. So yes, this is the, the lore. Okay. Uh, Lewandowski might come run
00:33:48for Republican district one. I don't think he has much of a chance. Does he? I don't feel
00:33:54like, no, but I'd love to throw eggs at him. Cause nobody really likes him. I don't think
00:33:58like, I don't think, like, I feel like even, even a lot of Republicans in the state don't
00:34:01really like that much. So I think even like, didn't even like Chris Brown or was it Chris
00:34:06Jason Brown? Oh, Scott Brown. Yeah. Scott Brown. I think even he was like kind of anti the
00:34:12ice stuff like to, uh, at a point. Oh, I didn't know that. That's good. I might be
00:34:16wrong, but I mean, he's not super right wing. He's kind of a, you know, he's a Northeastern
00:34:20moderate mass Republican. Yeah. Yeah. It's from Matt. I mean, he's a Massachusetts Republican,
00:34:24so he's not going to be like super right wing. Uh, I mean, I'm sure he's very comfortable
00:34:28with, uh, MAGA, uh, cause they all are, uh, to, to some extent, but he's not going to be
00:34:33like a hardcore right winger. Yeah. I mean, he's not like, I don't know. I don't know enough
00:34:37about him. Um, yeah. So, yeah. So, so we did win with the immigration stuff. Yeah. Um,
00:34:47unfortunately it looks like the, uh, bringing it back to state level here. It looks at the
00:34:54Charlie Kirk act passed. Yes. Yes. Um, so that's very disturbing. Got something here from a New
00:35:02Hampshire bulletin about that. A house passes bill banning quote leftist,
00:35:07indoctrination in LGBTQ plus teaching in public schools because, because, uh, I don't know if
00:35:14you know this Todd, but according to my Republican friends, uh, the entire point of public education
00:35:19is to turn everyone gay and, um, and, and make them trans. I don't know if you knew this
00:35:24gay entrance gay entrance. So it's like gay, like a stepping stone. Yeah. Like, like marijuana was the
00:35:31gateway drug. So now like gay, like the gateway drug to trans first, you turn them gay. And then
00:35:36if that goes well, if it takes, then you go ahead and make them trans, which is probably very
00:35:41confusing for the children. I can see why parents would be concerned. Very confusing for me. Very
00:35:45confusing for me as a gay man. Like I've never wanted to be like, yeah, I never had any like
00:35:50desire to suddenly turn trans. I mean, like, we'll be glad that, that you're in the generation that
00:35:55you're in, because if you were a young person today in school, you'd not only be gay, but I couldn't
00:36:00stop
00:36:00there. Yeah. Yeah. They'd, they'd make you trans. Um, remember when Trump even literally said that
00:36:06during the 2024 campaign, you remember that? Like at a campaign stop, he said, you know, you send your
00:36:11kid to school and they come on ironically, he just says teachers, the nurses, you, you send your kid
00:36:16to school and then, and then you pick them up after school and they're a different gender. And he just
00:36:20pan says it. Right. This is really about erasing history. Cause it says here, uh, restrictions,
00:36:26um, include prohibit schools from teaching or promoting specific topics, including critical
00:36:31race theory, uh, gender ideology, LGBTQ plus studies and Marxist or anti-constitutional
00:36:40doctrines. It also bans lessons that instruct students who identify as oppressors or oppressed
00:36:47based on identity. So they can't admit that they're oppressed. Right. No, sorry. Right.
00:36:56Well, either they can't admit that the Trump administration is an oppressor, which is
00:36:59interesting because these guys brag about it. So that's, what's so bizarre. Like, I feel
00:37:06like they should all get in the same room and at least come up with like, like a joint
00:37:09messaging. Yeah. Because like, how do you spout off? Like, if you are the next imperialist,
00:37:14then you're an oppressor. Right. You don't, you can't be an imperialist without oppressing.
00:37:19Right. Right. So I don't know why they're afraid, you know, of these people saying
00:37:26that the United States oppressors, they should be proud of that. Isn't that what they wanted?
00:37:32Right. Right. But it feels like we're never going to get past all this, uh, all this stuff
00:37:38in public schools where the, you know, they're, they're just trying to, it's like, you know,
00:37:42and, and, and obviously, I mean, you know, I was, I was being funny about it, but you know,
00:37:46nobody's, nobody's trying to make your kid, uh, gay or trans, but I do think, I do think in public
00:37:51schools that, uh, the idea is that everyone should be able to be comfortable there regardless of
00:37:55their orientation or sexual identity, gender identity, whatever it is. So, so I think they
00:38:00do teach in public schools, uh, you know, yeah, tolerance. Exactly. You know, Hey, don't call
00:38:05the gay kid a gay slur. Uh, Hey, let's try to be supportive of, of people who are dealing
00:38:10with, uh, with gender issues and their identity and whatever, um, and make school an inclusive
00:38:15place where everyone feels safe. I mean, I think that's, that's the whole idea. Right. But,
00:38:19but, but conservatives take that and they're trying to indoctrinate everybody.
00:38:22It took me granted. I have like, I took an extensive, uh, queer studies course in college,
00:38:29but it took me college. Like I never, I don't know. I mean, younger people, I guess, I don't
00:38:34know. Maybe Anthony can tell us at some point, like I was not aware there was this extensive
00:38:39queer studies like in certainly not middle school and not even in high school. So it's the same thing
00:38:47with critical race theory. That's that's college level stuff, but they throw, they throw that
00:38:53around. They're teaching, they're teaching our fifth graders, critical race theory. It's like,
00:38:57you know, no, they're not, no, they absolutely are not. We're just trying to keep them off
00:39:01a tick tock and try to get them to like, you know, they're teaching our third graders to
00:39:08hate themselves for being white. It's like what they're, what they're really going to hate
00:39:11though, is that all of the history books and how they're going to look after this mess.
00:39:15Then they'll really, Hey, you know, I just want to like play a little game here. Little
00:39:20game. I found out, right. Okay. Where are Jan Sixers now? Well, let me tell you where they
00:39:26are right now. Oh, I know where, I know where you're going. They just picked up a guy in
00:39:28Florida, um, who is, uh, I think what picked up for, uh, sexual assault or molestation of
00:39:36what? Three girls, three. Well, we don't know if they're girls or boys, but, uh, three
00:39:40teenagers. Oh, I don't know. That's not where I thought you were going. Oh, but there
00:39:44there's another one. So the other Jan Sixer was doing a, um, a rally out in front of Gracie
00:39:51mansion and, uh, they found bombs or some type of explosive device. So this guy, you
00:39:57know, I mean, evidently if it's okay to attack the Capitol, it's certainly okay to attack
00:40:02Gracie mansion. So. Yeah. Well, some of them have been recruited in the ice too. Well, that's
00:40:09makes sense. Perfect job for them, I guess. So there again, it's like, well, why? I mean,
00:40:15you should be glad we're calling your people aggressors. Cause they are like, like, isn't
00:40:19that what you wanted? Yeah. That's what I find interesting. I mean, how you can't be a strong
00:40:25man without being a strong man. I mean, that's what I don't get. Right. Right. Um, but yeah,
00:40:32the Charlie Kirk law, that's what they're calling this. Yeah. Which is weird too. Like
00:40:37it's embarrassing. The whole thing's embarrassing. The guy was a hate monger. Um, he was, you
00:40:42know, he was like, you know, Charlie Kirk, what Charlie Kirk did, um, you know, fine dialogue,
00:40:48debate, all of that, but he would purposely incite people. Um, it was all for ratings. He would,
00:40:55you know, he definitely crossed the line. Uh, he broke hate speech laws in, in the States
00:41:01that have them, you know, he basically hung a target on his own head and said, come at
00:41:06me, you know, like, and I'm not saying they should have done it. They shouldn't, but it's
00:41:10common sense. If you, you know what? Charlie Kirk might as well have just been the chum
00:41:16to a shark feeding frenzy. He just like, you know, grabbed all this meat and jumped in
00:41:20the shark feeding pool. Like ridiculous. Yeah. I wouldn't go that far. Um, no, I would
00:41:25because, because I know I'm just saying I wouldn't, well, like we have all of
00:41:31these, because what's happened is, you know, you, you can't have it once you radicalize
00:41:37the right and let the radicalized right come out of the closet, so to speak, then people
00:41:42that are, that are unstable and unhappy and angry and frustrated on the left are also going
00:41:48to come out and get more aggressive. So, or whatever, or just not as much, right. But
00:41:53it's not right or left. Actually, these people are just, what I'm saying is these are triggers.
00:41:57He was a trigger to, to, to mentally, you know, unstable people. It's about right or
00:42:04left anyway. So if you're going to do that, I'm not saying it was justified.
00:42:08Right. Right. I get that. He was a catalyst. Like you can't. So I agree. I agree with you
00:42:15there. I, I, I guess, I guess the only thing like I, because some people say, well, he was
00:42:19the architect of his own demise and that I, because I don't, I think in a broad, in a broader
00:42:25sense, I agree with you and, and this type of, of toxic stuff that he and his ilk put
00:42:29out into the zeitgeist does, uh, create violence. Uh, so I agree with you there. I just, but
00:42:36I also, I also don't want to, um, I don't know. It's all, it's all like relative. It's
00:42:45all, um, in levels, right? Like Charlie Kirk was still Charlie Kirk. So at the end of the
00:42:49day, he was an entertainer, you know, he was a more fiery, more like right-leaning Joe
00:42:56Rogan. Um, you know, he was that basically what he was and he was, and he was young.
00:43:01So he was, he was appealing to college kids and no, so it wasn't the Stephen Miller tour.
00:43:07So how people, you know, Stephen Miller, you know, you can justify for the greater good.
00:43:13What, whatever happens to him happens to him. Like that's a different situation. That's like
00:43:17Nuremberg as far as I'm, because there were Stephen Miller, but with Charlie Kirk, you
00:43:22know, he certainly didn't deserve to be executed. I was mortified by, by what happened to him.
00:43:30I guess I'm just, I've become so just like, I've lived through so many like social revolutions
00:43:36that I'm just not surprised. I mean, I get, Oh, I get that. We could say the same for like
00:43:41Martin Luther King, who I, who I respect and love and like Malcolm X, who I respect in some
00:43:45respects. Like if you poke the bear or you, you, you know, throw fluid on the fire, lighter fluid
00:43:52on the fire, eventually you get burned. I mean, I, I, I, I see what you're saying. I see what
00:43:56you're
00:43:56saying. In other words, it's, um, if, okay, I'll use me as an example. If I chose to go to
00:44:03a
00:44:04white nationalist rally and got on a megaphone by myself or whatever, just a few group of us and
00:44:11like was harassing them and yelling at them and calling, you know, all this stuff. And like,
00:44:16it wouldn't be surprising if eventually I had some sort of hit on my head or some sort of like
00:44:21attempt on my life or whatever, like, um, you know, um, you know, it's funny. And Oh, Karen said
00:44:29in the chat, it's safe to say that he lived and died in the world that he wanted. Um, I,
00:44:34it, it kind
00:44:35of makes me think, and actually I think her comment relates to this and this is something I hadn't
00:44:39thought about quite this way. I mean, I agree, Karen, but, um, I wonder, do you think Charlie
00:44:44Kirk felt safe generally? Because, because more of the, I mean, you know, the right will try to
00:44:52claim that the left is so violent and we're not, uh, most of the violence comes from the right.
00:44:57That is an objective. Absolutely. Absolutely. Do you think Charlie Kirk in some way felt safe and
00:45:02insulated from ever having to face consequences for the toxicity that he was putting out into the
00:45:07world? Because he just assumed no one on the left would ever take a shot at him.
00:45:10Well, everyone assumes the left is all pacifists and they always assume that like, you know,
00:45:14they're all anti-gun. And I think, you know, for a long, long time, that was a pretty accurate
00:45:19assumption. I mean, not that we were total pacifists, but that we always went for like
00:45:23nonviolent solutions. But the problem is, is that like many people, and I don't mean this in a
00:45:29negative way. I just mean reality. Like we've cornered people, you know, this is literally to some
00:45:35people. And I'm not saying it's even like logical, but it kind of is quasi logical. Like if you're an
00:45:45immigrant right now and you're a young immigrant and let's say, not only are you a young immigrant,
00:45:51but let's say you live in an, in a part of the United States or in a urban area that
00:45:55is like,
00:45:56you see violence anyway, you see a lot of violence, you see a lot of conflict being dealt
00:46:00with through violence. You see gangs, you see all of this, right? So to them, to that, to people that
00:46:07are encultured in that way, it's not a big step to like defend themselves in that respect. And
00:46:14furthermore, and on the other side too, in a resistance way, if you literally feel like if
00:46:20you don't fight, you're going to be marched off to a concentration camp, which you very likely could
00:46:23die at, I'm not shocked. Now, again, the difference is Charlie Kirk is not that Charlie
00:46:31Kirk doesn't have that kind of power. He can't decide or didn't, he couldn't decide whether you
00:46:36were detained or not. I mean, so I do think there was a difference, you know, like, yeah,
00:46:44like that level of anger at a Lewandowski is very different than that level of anger at a
00:46:51Charlie Kirk. Right. But in the same token, people are just angry. Yeah. Yeah. And I think
00:47:00the other problem is like a lot of people feel hopeless. I mean, people feel hopeless. They
00:47:06get desperate. Very true. Very true. As I'm thinking about it too. I mean, honestly, in many
00:47:13ways I'm safe. I can pretty much say what I want to say and not have the secret police come
00:47:18after me. I mean, yeah, I'm probably on a list. I I'm sure I am, but, um, but you'll have
00:47:25people
00:47:25in various, uh, organizations maybe get mad at you. Yeah, but that's fine. But I mean, for
00:47:31me, it's like, it actually, you know what I'm referring to? Oh yeah. Yeah. Well that organization,
00:47:42whatever. Who's still talking me. That's right. That's right. Um, you know, the other thing
00:47:49too, that I just wanted to say too, uh, about the Charlie Kirk thing is very often. And I
00:47:53believe, I don't remember all the details, but I think that very often it's not even a
00:47:57matter of left, right with these assailants. It's just, they're just crazy. Sometimes they're
00:48:02just crazy. Like the guy, the guy who killed Charlie Kirk, it sounds like he was just out
00:48:06of his mind. I mean, crazy, such a loose. I think he was like a, uh, like a, like a
00:48:11very
00:48:13sad individual who like needed serious therapy and didn't get it and was around a lot of toxic
00:48:20people. And I think that when someone is sick, I, and I don't know, I don't, I didn't diagnose
00:48:25the kid, but maybe he was schizophrenic. Maybe he was bipolar. Maybe he was all these things.
00:48:29So those things untreated can potentially go, especially those things untreated, but not just
00:48:35untreated, but like constantly promoted negatively. Yes. Could easily cause problems.
00:48:42Right. And you said it perfectly before when, when people get desperate, they get dangerous
00:48:46and who's more desperate than someone who's dealing with severe mental illness and, and
00:48:52other issues. And they're not, and they're not getting help. What's that? And you also feel
00:48:57like it's a pariah. I mean, we don't do a good job of taking care of our mentally ill.
00:49:00Exactly. Exactly. 100%.
00:49:02Especially your more like advanced mental illness. As a matter of fact, we wait for it to be an
00:49:09issue. It's such a, we're such a reactionary society, but we can go, that can be a whole
00:49:13other thing, but we've gotten better about it in some ways, you know, I mean, as I can tell
00:49:19you, as someone who deals with depression, the stigma is much, much less on something like
00:49:26that than it used to be. But, but again, but my issue, it's different in, unfortunately
00:49:32it's not, you know, in urban or suburban environments that are like, like blue to purple, where people
00:49:39there's enough progressive people and enough educated people. Like we really are in this
00:49:44insulated bubble, unfortunately. And we're, it's not the norm. I mean, cause if it was the
00:49:50norm, Trump wouldn't be in office. So there's a lot of people that like, you know, more than
00:49:56we think.
00:49:58Yeah. Yeah. Um, what was the other thing?
00:50:01There's a lot of desperation out there, unfortunately.
00:50:03Yes. Yes, there is. Yes, there is. Absolutely. Um, that might be a good bridge to, into, uh,
00:50:09something else. And it took me a second to remember what it was. Cause for some reason
00:50:12I didn't write it down, but you had brought this to my attention as we were talking before
00:50:15the show. Uh, somebody wants, uh, in New Hampshire, uh, to be able to carry a gun on.
00:50:22Oh yeah. Right. Which is.
00:50:26We've come. Yeah. Oh, go ahead. Go ahead, Todd.
00:50:29So myself and, and, um, you know, even everyone that I know, we're all like, let me just say
00:50:36for the record, um, myself and, and Sarah and everyone, we're all pro common sense gun laws.
00:50:42Yes. There are places within common sense gun laws. It's okay to say certain areas and
00:50:48certain places in our society don't need guns. Right. And schools is one of the schools are
00:50:53one of those places. And there's some kid, I don't know his name, but you could probably
00:50:59look it up. And he's on the house of representatives in New Hampshire, in New Hampshire. And he's
00:51:06trying to get a bill passed for open carry on he's using UNH as the model, but I think it
00:51:13would
00:51:14be like all colleges in New Hampshire. Okay. And as I've been told by the, um, you know, I was
00:51:21educated about this by the UNH democratic, uh, committee, the, the group. Um, I mean, it would
00:51:26be so severe that they literally could like take a gun into a classroom and you could like lay it
00:51:32on
00:51:32your desk. Yeah. With it being loaded and this, and no, and, and if someone says something, they
00:51:40would be fine. So we should, uh, we, Oh yeah, go ahead. And you know, what's interesting is that
00:51:45like, there's even all these pragmatic reasons why that's not good again. Right. Like, um, so
00:51:54now what's happening, what, one thing UNH brought up and the security of UNH brought up is like,
00:51:59okay, so let's play the scenario out. There's a school shooting and we have to keep the school.
00:52:05We have to somehow, you know, uh, take care of the school shooter. Right. Who do we go after?
00:52:13You now have this population. All these people are now open carrying guns. You don't know who
00:52:18is safe and not safe. You don't know who's just doing this for like their own protection or as part
00:52:23of the school shooter group. Um, so the likelihood of people getting killed from that situation,
00:52:29for instance, you know, like the security thing, Oh, they're one of the school shooters. And in fact,
00:52:33they're not, especially when they're talking about like carrying around AR, you know, 15s and stuff
00:52:38like that. Like, what do you think? I mean, and in that moment, it's not really, it's unfair and
00:52:44unreasonable to ask, like, you know, at that point they'll bring in, like, I'm sure if that was a
00:52:48situation, like SWAT, they're not going to sit there and like, try to like, you know, uh, take
00:52:54a long analysis as to which one of these kids running around with an AR 15 is a good AR
00:52:5815 and
00:52:59which one's bad. Right. Right. I mean, I would probably make a more direct argument and just
00:53:05say to anyone who thinks this is a good idea, really, you want to trust college kids to be
00:53:08carrying around guns? Well, yeah. Plus they're, yeah. I mean, they're like doing peg stands and like,
00:53:13you know, pantsing each other in the hallways and all this. I mean, they're, I mean, I don't
00:53:18know. I mean, I don't know what I'm saying, but you know what I'm saying? They're being
00:53:20kids, which is fine. Be kids. But, but it's supposed to be safe to be a kid. Like, you
00:53:27know, you shouldn't have to walk around campus and especially with all the vitriol and all
00:53:32of the anger and all of the, you know, going on, like now worst case scenario, you piss
00:53:38off the wrong person, you get punched in the nose. You bring that into play and someone
00:53:43just decides to shoot someone. Yeah. I just, I think it's something we should clarify too,
00:53:48because for people who are consumers of our program, who are not in New Hampshire and who
00:53:54don't know New Hampshire politics might be a little confused about something. We should
00:53:57clarify that in New Hampshire. So we have effectively a citizen legislature. We have, I believe it's
00:54:01the third largest democratically elected legislative body in the world. Our New Hampshire legislature,
00:54:07it's 400 something people. 430 something around there. Yeah. Yeah. And it, and it barely
00:54:13pays anything. Uh, I think you get a $100 stipend or something and you get to go through the toll
00:54:17booth for free. And so, and so that's why for people who are listening to us going, what, there's
00:54:22a college student who sits on your state legislature. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. There, there,
00:54:27there are, there are college students. There are very old people who are retired. Um, and just
00:54:33people on life support, you know, Hey, yeah. Yeah. I remember, uh, Bob Backus who, you know,
00:54:38and, and, and he's a, an older gentleman himself. So he, he could make this joke. He said that the,
00:54:42uh, uh, uh, the average, uh, uh, what did he say? The, the, the average or the median age of
00:54:47the
00:54:47New Hampshire state legislature was deceased. Um, so, you know, so, so that's how we end up with,
00:54:54uh, you know, a college kid from UNH with, with this kind of power, quote unquote, if you want to
00:55:00call
00:55:00it that. Um, and I did find this on WMUR, uh, legislation to lift all gun bans at public
00:55:05colleges and universities in New Hampshire is moving forward. Uh, house Republicans, uh, passed
00:55:10it. Uh, uh, and, uh, representative, uh, Sam Farrington, Republican of Rochester says we
00:55:18in New Hampshire have made it clear. Self-defense is not a privilege. It is a natural right and
00:55:22natural rights are given by governments. They are grant or are not given by governments.
00:55:26They are granted by God alone. Farrington is a student at UNH. Yeah. They've got to bring
00:55:32in the, the, the, the, the, the God stuff. Um, he kind of, he also said this, he said,
00:55:37quote, we hear college students are too drunk. They're too immature. They're too young to carry
00:55:41a firearm. My question is how can we allow them to vote then? And, and how do we let them
00:55:47go fight in a foreign war? Well, I can answer one of those questions. I don't want them to
00:55:50fight in foreign wars. So there's the first thing. Right. And the other thing, how do we,
00:55:55how do we allow them to vote? Well, guess what? When you go to vote, you're not going to be
00:55:58drunk vote. Right. You're probably not going to be drunk and accidentally shooting somebody when
00:56:03you go to vote. So that's why. So, uh, yeah, so, so no. And by the way, this is coming
00:56:09from someone
00:56:09who, and I'm sure I'm probably, you know, this is, um, this is an issue where I tend not to
00:56:15be
00:56:15particularly liberal. Like a lot of New Hampshire Democrats. I'm, I'm very pro to a, um, I, I feel
00:56:21very safe with the level of gun ownership in our state. We live in a very safe state. I have
00:56:26no problem
00:56:26with people having guns. I really don't, but this is stupid. You, you, you should not have
00:56:32guns on college campuses. You cannot trust college kids with guns. Um, as much as I want to protect
00:56:38everyone's second amendment rights, we do have to inject some common sense. And I also do support
00:56:43common sense gun laws too. I mean, there are just some places that it's not necessary. You don't need
00:56:47it in hospitals. You don't need it in, um, you know, I mean, they don't need it in the legislature
00:56:51and
00:56:52they have it. Right. Yeah. So yeah, it's, this is a, uh, dumb idea. And, uh, hopefully, uh, this young
00:57:02man will mature at some point because I don't even hear most Republicans saying, Oh, you know,
00:57:06I think it'd be a great idea to have guns on college campuses. It was like, he was just like
00:57:10wanted to be noticed. I think so. That's probably what it is. That's probably what it is. And I don't
00:57:16want to be the, I don't want to be the dismissive old guy saying, Oh, this young person just wants
00:57:20attention, but, but that probably, well, thank you. I'm middle-aged, but I don't want to sound
00:57:24like the, I don't want to sound like an old, you know, these young people today, they just want
00:57:28attention. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to be perceived that. No, I mean,
00:57:32Trump's an old fuck and he wants attention. That's true. He's pushing 80. When does he
00:57:36push 80? No, I think he's 79, isn't he? Is he 80? Above 80. Wait, hold on. Trump? I don't
00:57:48think he is.
00:57:49No, he's 79. Oh God. I thought he was like 85. No, but he turns 80 on June 14th. June
00:57:5814th,
00:57:59he turns 80. He'll be the big eight zero. Lucky us. But you know, they say 80 is the new
00:58:0579. I read
00:58:06that in GQ. So there's that. You know, Biden is rumored to have had a coffee cup on his desk
00:58:14in the Oval Office that said life begins at 80. Really? Yeah. No, I made that up.
00:58:21I made that up. Well, Todd, it's, it's, uh, we're coming up on an hour. Uh, anything else you wanted
00:58:26to touch on before we, uh, Oh, wait, wait, wait. Before we, before we do anything else, Karen just
00:58:31made a great point in the chat room. It's a risk of increasing domestic violence incidents on campus.
00:58:36Karen, that is a record referring to the guns. Karen, that is a great point because we know.
00:58:42Yeah. And we know domestic violence. Rape is very common on college. Oh yeah. America.
00:58:48They can now rape. Sexual assault is very common or boys for that matter. Yeah. Um, cause these
00:58:54aggressors, that's a great, a lot of times these aggressors, I think there's a lot more, um, not
00:58:59that we're going to go off of this whole tangent, but I mean, you don't have to specify the gender
00:59:04because I think that like the same sex rape happens more often than we think.
00:59:09Yeah. Well, certainly in prison, it does. I don't know. No, but I think even like in
00:59:13these college communities and stuff like that, like frat houses and stuff for sure.
00:59:18Probably. Yeah. You're probably right. I mean, at least not rape is a loose term, but like,
00:59:22you know, purposely, I mean, cause if you're just some predator and you just want to get off,
00:59:28like, you know, I don't know. In many cases, a lot of these people, it's like any hole will
00:59:35do. They don't care. Like, you know, right. And it's all about just power. Well, there's
00:59:42also haze. Yeah. That's what I mean. Which, which fraternity, right. Which oddly has homosexual
00:59:47undertones. Oh yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, that's a whole other story. Whole other
00:59:54story. That's a good pun. Whole other story. I like puns. Good thing. Good thing Anthony isn't
01:00:02our guest today. Oh, I know. We'd have people mad at us. How dare you use the word hole in
01:00:08front
01:00:08of a young person? Yep. I know. Well, very good. Well, Todd, anything, anything we didn't touch on
01:00:15that you wanted to mention? There's always something, right? Always some new things. Oh yeah.
01:00:19Yeah. We live in very interesting times. That's for sure. Do you want to tell people where
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01:00:45go. I'm a communication strategist. I just get confused. I, I double think things, whatever
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01:02:55All right. Well, very good. Well, I think, uh, episode 15 in the books. So thank you everybody.
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